Community Foundation of North Louisiana

Labor Day - CFNLA Office Closed
2025-09-01 | LA
Community Foundation will be closed Monday, September 1, 2025, for Labor Day.

WPN Fall Lunch & Learn
2025-09-17 11:30 - 13:00 (America/Chicago) | East Ridge Country Club, 1000 Stewart Drive, Shreveport, LA, 71106
Impact Grantmaking: The Tools We Use to Make Philanthropic Investments
Wednesday, September 17, 2025 | 11:30-1:00 PM
East Ridge Country Club | Gallery Room
1000 Stewart Drive, Shreveport, LA 71106
Join the Women’s Philanthropic Network and Community Foundation of North Louisiana on Wednesday, September 17, for our kickoff lunch and learn event. During this session, we will review the WPNs’ grantmaking history and explore the criteria and tools used to evaluate proposals and programs.
The program will include remarks from WPN members, Lucy Medvec (25-26 WPN Chair) and Rachel Lee Prestwood, and CFNLA Staff, Liz Laborde, Chief Grants Officer, Paige Carlisle, Chief Financial Officer, and Kristi Gustavson, Chief Executive Officer.
We hope you will join us for this educational event. The ticket cost is $20.
Please purchase a ticket here.

Community Counts 2025
2025-09-24 17:30 - 18:30 | Center for Medical Education at LSU Health Shreveport, 1365 Jennings Street, SHREVEPORT, LA, 71103, United States
Accurate data is essential to help our community set priorities, track progress, formulate policy, and allocate resources. To help drive change in our area, the Community Foundation has been tracking data and publishing Community Counts since 2008. Data for the Shreveport-Bossier Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) is collected and tracked in six categories – Population, Economics, Human Capital, Health, Social Environment, and Physical Environment. For the Community Foundation, this data guides all that we do.
Please join Community Foundation of North Louisiana on Wednesday, September 24, for Community Counts 2025, CFNLA’s annual report on the quality of life in Shreveport-Bossier. Dr. Dave Norris, Chief Research and Innovation Officer at Louisiana Tech University, will present this year’s data report card for Shreveport-Bossier.
CFNLA will also give a special report, “From Summit to Action: Results from the Early Childhood Education Initiative from 2018-2025.”
Location: Center for Medical Education at LSU Health Shreveport | 1365 Jennings Street, Shreveport, LA 71103 | Parish of Caddo Assembly Room (Room 1307)
Please register here.
